TODAY | SUNDAY 23 JUNE 2013 | 11:30am-2:00pm
Translating Early 20th Century Yiddish Plays for 21st Century Audiences
Co-sponsored by the New Worlds Theater Project
TRANSLATION WORKSHOP
This hands-on translation workshop will feature New Worlds Theater Company’s Producing Artistic Director, Ellen Perecman, who will facilitate translation and discussion of short pieces from playwrights such as Hirshbein, Leivick, Ash, and Bimko.
This event is open to the public for $25. Current YIVO students: free.
Basic proficiency in Yiddish is required.
Please register and pay via: www.dernayerdor.com/yivo
TODAY | SUNDAY 23 JUNE 2013 | 2:00pm
Celebration of the New Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary
Co-sponsored by Indiana University Press and the Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies at Columbia University
BOOK TALK & RECEPTION
Admission: Free
RSVP Required: www.yivo.org/reservations | 212.294.6139
Most of this program will be held in Yiddish.
Join us in celebrating the new Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, the largest and most complete of its kind to date, published by Indiana University Press. Speakers will include the editors, Dr. Solon Beinfeld and Dr. Harry Bochner, as well as the executive director of the Forward Association, Sam Norich, a major supporter of the project. Temma Schaechter (of Di Shekhter-tekhter) and Binyumen Schaechter will perform musical selections; refreshments will be served. Read more…
SUNDAY 30 JUNE 2013 | 1:00pm
Annual Mordkhe Schaechter Memorial Program
Co-sponsored by the League for Yiddish
MEMORIAL PROGRAM
Admission: Free
RSVP Required: www.yivo.org/reservations
Guest Speaker: Professor Sam Kassow (Trinity College)
“A Historian in the Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg-Shabes Archive”
Singer: Anthony Mordechai-Tsvi Russell
ON VIEW NOW THROUGH JULY 30
Floating Worlds and Future Cities: The Genius of Lazar Khidekel, Suprematism, and the Russian Avant-Garde
EXHIBITION
“Floating Worlds and Future Cities” is the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of the work of the great artist, architect, designer and theoretician, Lazar Khidekel (1904-1986). Lazar Khidekel worked closely with Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich in Vitebsk in the years 1918-1922, where he became an important proponent and theoretician of the avant-garde movement known as Suprematism and a founding member of the UNOVIS group (Affirmers of New Art), which included other notable Russian and Jewish artists such as Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitsky, Nina Kogan and Ilya Chashnik. The exhibition focuses on Lazar Khidekel’s role in the transition of Suprematism from painting to architecture, cosmic urbanization, and radical yet environmentally conscious city planning of the future. Read more…
This exhibition begins on the 3rd Floor and continues on the 2nd Floor Mezzanine.
Hours:
Mon and Wed: 9:30am-8:00pm
Tue and Thu: 9:30am-5:00pm
Fri: 9:30am-3:00pm
Sat: CLOSED
Sun: 11:00am-5:00pm
Unless otherwise mentioned events take place at the
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research | 15 West 16th Street
New York | NY | 10011
www.yivo.org